Re: apt-offline

=871656 I have hoped to have it fixed but other real life things have since taken a higher priority. I had also hoped that maybe other apt-offline users would come up with a patch but that didn't happen. So this will have to wait until I get some free time. > thanks, > Paul --

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.8.0 Released

Hello World, It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.8.0 For a detailed release announcement, please visit: https://www.researchut.com/blog/apt-offline-180 This release is a major update, porting apt-offline to Python3 and Py3Qt5. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Re: Re: iio-sensor-proxy fills my syslog on debian testing

> The upstream ask to give this information to distribution mainteiner, so I am > cc to Ritesh Raj Sarraf. For the fix to be part of Debian, it should be in the upstream kernel. Given the current status, it would mean the fix needs to be part of the 4.9 Linux stable series. - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7.2 Released

be available soon. - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYJK2FAAoJEKY6WKPy4XVpw5gQAIbs9GUj88d+5im2rQyIzAh8 41s8rfef0i+g1K+0zdOcfsyXER/6HboB3bfd8jVciNdQv+FNiKy4mtJenlUCgQso

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7.1 Released

for Debian should be available soon. - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJX1omEAAoJEKY6WKPy4XVpz6YP/ihbo5bJ8av55QTa83EfrSqo k94EC8R2xcr8vRKVOK4gk9I//PRef1TRgidokURsCkK3

Re: machine checks on Dell R815 under jessie

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >    From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf > >    I (still) have MCE errors on my new laptop [1]. But so far, hasn't created >    any problem. > > It causes my servers to ha

Re: machine checks on Dell R815 under jessie

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 23:16 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > >    From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf > >  > >    I (still) have MCE errors on my new laptop [1]. But so

Re: machine checks on Dell R815 under jessie

On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 20:43 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I upgraded four Dell R815s from wheezy to jessie a few weeks ago. Prior to the > upgrade, they were running reliably for about 5 years. Since the upgrade, two > machines have been getting periodic machine checks. The machines boot fin

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.69 Released

 * Honor device plug/unplug events on a per device basis;   like how Chromium initially submitted this patch * Also be consistent with option in the event parser * Update links in README.md * Update new github homepage location * Add lmt-config-gui shell script -- Ritesh R

Re: bad sectors on disk

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:00 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > A couple days ago, I removed the smartmontools package. I suspected > that that may be causing trouble. For the last couple days, my klog > was > clean and I was tempted to report. I installed smartmontools again, and ran s

Re: bad sectors on disk

On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 08:42 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > > From the report, it says that there are 0 bad blocks. So is > this a > > > > bug in e2fsprogs ? > > David Wright wrote: > > Does one I/O

Re: bad sectors on disk

ike > >   dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null >    > If you get errors, try whether they occur again if you start reading > a few hundred blocks before that address > >   dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null skip=...block.number... > > > But i do not really expect a reproducible pattern here. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: bad sectors on disk

Hello Thomas, Thank you for your response. On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 11:17 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf's kernel wrote: > > [156278.815976] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: > > hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x00 > > [156278.823864] sd

bad sectors on disk

ere are 0 bad blocks. So is this a bug in e2fsprogs ? -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention"

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7 Released

details and other details about bug fixes is available in the git repository and the homepage. Packages for Debian should be available by now. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.68.1 Released

sbindir for RPM -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.68 Released

r the tarball is 15edf643990e08deaebebf66b128b270 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.67 Released

I missed one more fix for this release. https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/commit/915855731c08157a8dc2debfe2a4dc3de688f071 I would request all packagers to pick this fix too. On Friday 03 July 2015 05:56 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I am very pleased to

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.67 Released

p-mode-tools [2]http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/downloads/laptop-mode-tools_1.67.tar.gz [3] http://www.researchut.com/blog/laptop-mode-tools-167 Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Des

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.66 Released

http://www.researchut.com/blog/laptop-mode-tools-1-66 Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.5

reports and make them available offline. Description-md5: 7487fa218999d3466bc1f427d657de2f -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.64 Released

2c [1] https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools [2]http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/downloads/laptop-mode-tools_1.65.tar.gz [3] http://www.researchut.com/blog/laptop-mode-tools-1-65 Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the m

USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 "squeeze" 64 Bit OS

there any issue regarding older kernel (2.6.32) which is not going to support xhci host controller driver support for USB 3.0 device or any issue regarding older Debian 6.0 OS?* Please let me know your valuable feedback on this as soon as possible. Thanks for your support. -- Regar

Fwd: USB 3.0 Device Enumeration failed on USB 3.0 Port in Debian 6.0 "squeeze" 64 Bit OS

Hi ALL, Please find the below mail and let me know your feedback as soon as possible. Thanks for your support. Regards, Ritesh Prajapati, System Level Solutions (India) Pvt.Ltd. = Diwali Shutdown: SLS will be closed from

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.63 Released

[1] https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools [2]http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/downloads/laptop-mode-tools_1.63.tar.gz <http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/downloads/laptop-mode-tools_1.61.tar.gz> Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Ne

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline1.3 released

here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1856 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mothe

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline1.2 released

debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1669 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline1.1 released

https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1669 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline - 1.0 Released

1.0 release can be downloaded here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1613 [4] http://www.researchut.com/blog/archive/2010/11/08/apt-offline-10 -- Ritesh

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.9 released

up_id=100399&release_id=1526 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.8 released

elease_id=1510 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released

elease_id=1487 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.6 released

grade) way. apt-offline is available at [1] and the latest 0.9.6 release can be downloaded here [2] [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1450 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.resea

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.4 released

PS: apt-offline is currently in the NEW queue and will soon be part of Debian. Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.3 released

t-get update/upgrade) way. apt-offline is available at [1] and the latest 0.9.3 release can be downloaded here [2] [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1418 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCH

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.0 released

I'm not religiously following the d-u list. Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

apt/dpkg delta feature

Hi, Look at this. https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/presto Does apt/dpkg have something similar? Ritesh -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

APT Mirror Priority

ble to download multiple packages simultaneously from multiple mirrors at the same time? Currently I see that happening only with security.debian.org and one of the many mirrors listed in sources.list Ritesh -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. -- To U

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

the driver. My VGA port got damaged silently. :-( Thank you for the confirmation. Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:09:50 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 19:54:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > err. "iSCSI Hangs on reboot"? > You probably meant somet

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

t removed (but that would be the rarest case). I can't try install windows anymore because the entire hdd is already occupied by debian. So, with current "nvidia" binarly-only drivers, are people able to set TwinView. Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.resea

DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

resizing, placing and rotating of outputs), but no multiple displays anymore ATI R5xx and R6xx modesetting and 2D acceleration support " but no multiple displays anymore " What does this mean? No more dual monitor support? PS: Please CC me if possible. I'm not subscribed to the

[ANNOUNCE] pypt-offline 0.7.0 Released

-to-the-land-of-3355-per-month-dsl.html Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

specifying gcc arguments

kg . Maybe something that I read about Gentoo of modifying the /etc/make.conf. Do we have something similar ? Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

me documentation which details about it ? Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "The great are those who achieve the i

Mind Mapping Tool

most convenient to use ? Thanks, Ritesh - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "The great are those who achieve the impossible

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

Yeah,, The rest of the lists (redhat-* or name most others) are stupid and don't want their users to get help from the list. Ritesh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Proposed-change-for-subscriptions...-t1263446.html#a3442563 Sent from the Debian User forum at Nabbl

Re: Need help with backing up a Windows 98/2000 computer using rsync on a Debian Server running ssh

Incase you want a simpler solution which could work on both Linux and Windows, use unison. rrs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Am I Compromised -- Some interesting findings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann on Friday 25 Nov 2005 23:10 wrote: > On Fri, 2005-25-11 at 22:12 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >> In my first mail, the logs showed a lot of "sh" defunct processes >> executed from w

Am I Compromised -- Some interesting findings

Please suggest me what more should I look for and how to tackle this attack. Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother

Am I Compromised -- More information

?R06:08 48:27 /usr/sbin/httpd root 1550 0.0 0.0 1548 476 pts/0R+ 07:58 0:00 grep www-data If there's no /usr/sbin/httpd, how is the process running ? :-( Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "

Am I compromised

e if any rootkit was installed but chkrootkit reports that the system is not infected. Can anyone help me if my system is compromised or is it a system related issue ? What steps should I follow to get my webserver usable again ? It's a machine under production usage. Regards, rrs - -- Rites

Re: SSH attack

On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 00:34, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 10/15/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ## SSH Bruteforce > > iptables -N SSH_WHITELIST > > iptables -A SSH_WHITELIST -s 10.0.1.0/24 -m recent --remove --name SSH -j > > ACCEPT iptables -A

Re: SSH attack

name SSH -j denylog Creates a whilelist of one or more networks. All others are subject to inspection. More than 4 hits within 60 seconds are denied. In case of 60 seconds without a hit, this rule is automatically cleared again. That's the magic of the "recent"-module of iptables. I

Debian GNU/Darwin

C me, I'm not on the list. Regards, rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

sh patch included. Instead bootsplash patch is provided as a separate package which you can download and patch to your Debian shipped kernels. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, steal

dpkg database rebuild

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello People, If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages installed ? Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http

Migrating the partitions on the same machine

tition. Any suggestions ? Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -BE

Re: where is hw_random located in the modconf's menu?

the modconf's > menu and I do not think there is any search facility in the modconf's > program. So can someone tell me where hw_random is hiding in the > modconf's menu? > > thanks > raju > It should be somewhere grouped together with character device

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Clinton wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2005 1:18 pm, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >> But why would you want discover when hotplug is already there ? >> You can simple remove it. > > I could be misinformed, but I believe

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

f discover on Sarge in the installer, but discover2 is > available?!) from trying to install the module as well. > But why would you want discover when hotplug is already there ? You can simple remove it. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 0

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

ses. (It doesn't.) > > I can't seem to remember the magical incantation to tell the kernel to > ignore/skip loading that module altogether. > > Any thoughts? > > Nate If using hotplug, blacklist the module rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.resea

855resolution help

p from you will be really grateful to me. Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention

Re: Swap always full

Try `memstat` and see what application is using how much memory. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the moth

Re: reordering partitions?

don't worry, but yeah! don't run after me with a gun if something goes wrong :-) fdisk /dev/hda x (Go to expert mode) f (fix partition order) w (write table to disk and exit) Thats it. Cheers! rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC &q

Squirrelmail and remote imap

o double check, Are there any add-on modules required for Squirrelmail to work with remote imap servers? Regards, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." &q

qmail-src not activating changes

ait because the default qmail-src in Debian is useless by default without many of the necessary patches. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated. TIA, rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, s

Re: About Sarge's bootup

message, don't allow the kernel to load that particular module. Its working as designed. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Neces

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo Geek wrote: > On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Deboo Geek wrote: >> >> > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/f

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

and from the alphabets to the arrow keys? > > > Deboo You can't do that in insert mode. Hit Escape, return to Normal mode and then use your H,J,K,L keys to move. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one pers

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 05 May 2005 02:21:32 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> The question is, what if I am fiddling with some feature and want to >> do a minor change to se

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

I want and copy it to the appropriate folder, then I don't agree. That module won't be part of that particular kernel-image package then. What would I tell my friends/customers then ? Install this package and then copy this module to this particular directory ? Please let us know i

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

one single minor change. If you don't agree, you are ruining the pleasure of makefiles. Yes, having that could be a trouble but having root allowed to do a `rm - -rf /` is also a problem. A --force or --clean-all option should be there. That's just my opinion. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Re: apt-get deprecated?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Nelson wrote: > The right thing to do is to kill the huge meta-packages like 'kde' since > they are an ugly kludge and an abuse of the packaging system. > Then what is componentized linux which sarge is said to be part of

Re: apt-get deprecated?

at I didn't want without aptitude trashing the rest of my > kde set-up. > > So, both are needed, at least until users like me understand aptitude > internals better. > One good reason to stick to apt-get. :-) rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.c

Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?

n it. > > Is there something I can write in /etc/apt/preferences? I haven't found > a way to accomplish that. Pinning and locking version in synaptic don't > do this. > > Regards, > dave You can put the package on hold. I'm not sure if it is the best way to sec

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

make-kpkg to not call the master 'make clean'. Then, can anyone file a bugreport to add an option like: make-kpkg clean-all rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is r

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

clean` or `make-kpkg clean` because if we do clean for every minor change what's the benefit of makefiles. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Ne

Re: Lost /dev/modem Symlink After Purging Udev And Reinstalling

gt; There is no entry regarding /dev/modem, only a capi entry, in the > udev.rules file or in the devfs.rules file. > > _*NOT SUBSCRIBED-PLZ COPY MY EMAIL ADDRESS*__* > *_ > Thanks for any help, > Leonard Chatagnier What modem are you using ? Is it fully supported by the ke

Re: apt-get deprecated?

e more documentation for aptitude still. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention.&qu

global addressbook

eight software which could act as a centralized addressbook repository and serve these kind of MUA's ? rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research".

Re: when sarge will be released?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 05:08 pm, Vijaya S wrote: > sorry my doubt is i have sarge cds > i already have woody on the machine so how do i go about First of all, Don't TOP POST. As for the problem, apt-cdrom is your friend. rrs - --

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

gards > Ramesh You haven't said about which distribution you actually are using ? rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -B

Re: strange umask behaviour

t it is mask 777 using 022 = 755 666 - 022 = 644 (This is applicable for files) 777 - 022 = 755 (This is applicable for folders) rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiar

Re: Debian Commands

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 November 2004 01:46 am, Chris Lale wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 06:17, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > On Friday 29 October 2004 10:13 pm, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > > The `configure-debian' package g

Re: Redirect console output

nsole on to which you can redirect syslog messages. To read from /dev/xconsole use programs like xconsole. HTH rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". --

Re: a double boot

not be written.. I did verify every permission and other settings as per my skill level but all in vain. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is

Re: Debian Commands

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 October 2004 10:13 pm, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > The `configure-debian' package gives a nice frontend to > dpkg-reconfigure. Thank you very much for letting me know about this great package. :-) rrs - -- Ritesh

Re: How to uninstall?

ocal/stow/foo-0.0.1 and once installed, `cd /usr/local/stow; stow foo-0.0.1` will do the job of creating symlinks to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib etc etc etc. :-) I hope that is what you'll want. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

ee the CPU cache." On my Intel Centrino laptop the /proc/cpuinfo file does point out that the processor has a 2mb capacity of L2 Cache. May be I'm wrong and have misunderstood the whole thread. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04

Re: Intel AC'97 soft modem

y configuration settings I need to look at ? Please help. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU

Re: How does linux boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 01:19 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > > The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader

How does linux boot

. The boot-loader doesn't require anything ? Amazing. If yes, the boot-loader is smart enough. Why not use it's master-piece code into the kernel ? :-) If no, What have I missed to RTFM ? Any good docs ? rrs - - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F13

Intel AC'97 soft modem

from HP which has drivers for the modem and Wlan in it but they refer me to www.linuxant.com for further license. Is my modem fully supported and functional in the kernel 2.6 ? I've not been able to use the modem now. I'd be thankful for any documentation. I'm using Debian Sarge wi

Re: x-windows configuration in woody/sarge

think the problem is again with x-windows. > not necessarily. what errors do you get ? what config have you put ? give us some idea.. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from

Re: Missing ttys with udev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:06 am, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > you'll have to create symlinks yourself. Look in the /etc/udev > > directory. It's well documented. > &

Re: Install RPM ?

the last option. As you did, source installation and building deb package is better. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: Missing ttys with udev

t a > config option that I need. Problem is I don't know which one. > I google and looked at my config, but can't work it out. > I don't think that to be the reason. I too had same problem and tackling a little bit with udev did the work rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCH

Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

in back. it should work. Note: If using kernel 2.6.x , might be you'd also require to load the snd-pcm-oss module. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research&qu

Re: Install RPM ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 October 2004 02:09 pm, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Is there a possibility to install these RPM's ? use alien to convert rpm packages to deb. apt-cache show alien && apt-get install alien rrs - -- Ritesh Raj S

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